On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:09:50PM -0500, Reid Mumford wrote: > EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > change_root: old root has d_count=1 > Trying to unmount old root ... okay > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > > Any ideas on how to save this system without having to reinstall?
try booting up with init=/bin/sh and see if you can get yourself a root prompt. if so, you're golden. you might need to reinstall some packages (like sysvinit), and i don't know what the easiest way is to find packages that might have corrupted files though. hth sean
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